Welcome to r/SampleSize, a community dedicated to scientific, fun, and creative surveys produced for and by redditors! We know the sidebar is long, but it is informative - please give it a read!

This community is welcoming and while we enjoy freedom of speech, hate speech and abusiveness will never be tolerated. Offenders will be banned at the discretion of the mods.

How To Post

All titles must conform to the following style:

[Tag] Topic (Demographic)[Casual] Favourite Ice Cream (US 18+)

[Results] Topic (Demographic)[Results] Handedness (All welcome)

[Tag] - Casual, Academic, Marketing, or ResultsTopic - Topic of your survey ("survey for my english class" is not an adequate description)(Demographic) - Who you want to answer your survey; age, country, characteristics, etc. Let potential respondents know whether they should participate (required even if your survey is open to everybody)

Our community will downvote and report posts with titles that do not abide by this rule. If your post is mistitled, it will be reported as well. Offending posts will be deleted. If you have questions or need assistance, please message the mods.

Please feel free to repost your survey after it has fallen off of the front page of /r/SampleSize but please add [Repost] to your original title to prevent getting duplicate respondents. We will delete posts that are more frequent than this.[Repost][Casual] Favourite Colour? (All)

When asking about gender or sex, include "another gender" and/or a "fill in the blank" option. This is the best method for maximum data integrity.

If you are asking about race and/or ethnicity in your survey, please know the differences between them. Race refers to physical characteristics that one shares with other people of one's race, while ethnicity refers to one's culture and traditions.

Want more responses? Create a survey instead of putting your questions in a self-post!

Flair for Posts

Everybody likes to see survey results! Please use a [Results] tag if you are able to post the results of your survey, and please use link flair on your results. Just click on the "flair" link underneath your post to get this dialogue and select "Results".

We are now awarding user flair for those who take the time to post some interesting results. If you posted prior to the implementation, message the mods with a link to your results submission.

Resources

We've made a list of survey tools in our wiki to give you some ideas of resources you can use to make surveys. We make no guarantees or endorsements for any of these!

We like to do subreddit surveys of the week where we will create a survey specifically aimed at the readers of a particular subreddit. If you have a subreddit that you would like to nominate for a survey of the week, please message us!

Continuing with our Best of 2012 Community Awards, we are now looking for nominees for our 5 categories!

The categories are as of follows:

1. Most fun/interesting survey.

2. Best results post.

3. Best meta poll: Polls about Reddit.

4. Best meta post. (Posts by our users offering suggestions for how to improve the community. Remember, mods are not eligible for this or any other category)

5. Most meaningful survey. (Feel free to interpret this based on which survey(s) was/were important to you.)

To nominate something for a category, search back through the r/SampleSize archives and find your favorites. Then, either reply in the comments section under category you would like to nominate a post for with a link to that post (you can find links on the top and shortened links on the right side of each page), or respond in our survey here if you don't have a Reddit account or would like to respond a bit more anonymously.

You can nominate as many nominees for each category as you would like, but us mods are only going to take the top 5 from each category to put to your vote for the actual winners in a week. So check back here in a week to vote for the winners of each category!

Sounds good? Go for it! Remember, category winners each receive 1 Reddit creddit good for a free month of Reddit Gold! Let us know what you think about which posts, results, and people made up the best of r/SampleSize in 2012!

[Side note I remember counting all the posts before and after this post was made... I can't find the post, but only about half on the front page before posting had demographics, and it bumped up to about 80% afterwards. Hence why I think we really needed it!]